King of Special Effects

This is not the first time that Zhang Jin has participated in the shooting of a sci-fi film. He joined in the second part of Pacific Rim. In this movie, his real professional stuff is not shown.

He is the leading actor in Under Deep Space, and it is also a stage for him to show another side.

He is a senior in the show business circle, and Yi Yang is the director. On the set of a film, the director is the boss. Therefore, no matter how senior Zhang Jin is, he will still order him in front of Yi Yang. A director.

Yi Yang is now a 30 billion-level director, and already has enough status in the film and television industry.

This is also one of the factors that convince many actors.

Zhang Jin put on the stuffy costume and started acting according to the rehearsal just now.

This scene is about the protagonist overhauling the exterior of the spacecraft in a weightless environment. It is just a few tense sequences. In the studio, the wire is hung up. The specific actions have been rehearsed just now.

Okay, all departments are ready.

... 1, 2, 3 start!

With such a shot, Yi Yang can't see anything on the monitor at all, but according to his imagination, it is certain that Zhang Jin's movements are not in place.

The shot, which took less than 20 seconds, ended soon. Zhang Jin slowly fell to the ground and took off his hood: How is it? Do you want another one?

In this kind of role, the actors themselves have no way to measure how well they are acting, it still depends on the director.

After more than a minute, Yi Yang watched the playback twice.

Su Yanxin's voice came from his walkie-talkie: Okay, OK, pass this one, and prepare for the next one.

During the filming of this movie, every pass will make the crew on the scene feel relieved, and one OK means one less.

Shooting the same scene every day, the same scene, unknowingly the originally interesting things will become boring, and now this scene is a kind of work torment for most of the crew.

Including Yi Yang.

In order for Under the Deep Space to be released as soon as possible, during filming, Yi Yang had to complete the special effects production of The Wandering Earth, and also had to start the production of the special effects of Under the Deep Space.

Today, after completing the footage of the operation of the transport vehicle in The Wandering Earth, Yi Yang started to produce the footage of the earth exploding in Under Deep Space.

This scene has been fantasized in Yi Yang's mind countless times, but after the actual visual effects were created, he realized that what he imagined and what he saw with his eyes were completely different things for this spectacular scene.

In his imagination, Yi Yang knew that the scene of the earth exploding was shocking, but he couldn't feel the shocking effect.

But looking at the picture displayed on the computer screen now, the intuitive feeling is completely different. Now there is only one picture. If it is accompanied by BGM, the shocking effect will be even more shocking.

The scene of the explosion of the earth must be presented from several angles. The first thing to do is the perspective of God, from the perspective of the sky above the earth, showing the scene of the explosion, and then from the perspective of the entire solar system.

The light from the earth's explosion illuminates most of the solar system, and this perspective is viewed from the other side of the solar system.

Then there is the perspective of the moon and the spacecraft on which the protagonist is aboard. These two human intuitive perspectives are also very important.

Finally, there is the picture of the earth's crust being torn apart and various fiery eruptions and earthquakes.

In the entire movie, this scene of the destruction of the earth takes up about fifty seconds.

For the story of this movie itself, the explosion of the earth and the destruction of human beings are not an important factor, what is important is the rough and rough survival process of the surviving human beings.

In the novel, the scene of the earth exploding is briefly mentioned, just to explain the background of the story to the readers.

However, it's different in movies. Movies are all about visual effects. If Yi Yang doesn't show such a shocking scene like the explosion and destruction of the earth, then Yi Yang is a really stupid director.

Using traditional special effects production methods, the cost of tens of seconds of footage alone will cost millions, which is why many domestic film and television companies cannot afford sci-fi films.

The reason why science fiction movies are sci-fi is because they want the audience to present things that they can't see at ordinary times, and these things have to come from special effects.

With the development of movies to this day, it can also be said that there would be no science fiction movies without special effects.

Yi Yang's only advantage is that he doesn't have to worry about the cost of producing these special effects at all, so his movies have a very large boundary, and he can shoot whatever he wants. Of course, the movies he makes have to pass the review, otherwise It's all banned movies, maybe there will be jail time.

Zhang Jin hung on the wire again, ready to start shooting the next scene.

Yi Yang stared straight at the screen on the monitor, and took out the walkie-talkie: Push the camera forward a little bit to ensure a close-up.

Zhang Jin is now wearing a glass protective helmet that is shot according to the current spacesuit, and he has to do one or two movements in a weightless environment, floating in weightlessness, which cannot be done with just a wire, and the cooperation of the camera is also needed.

For example, Zhang Jin was hit and almost floated into space. At the last moment, he grabbed a corner of the spaceship.

In addition to the third-person perspective, there is also a picture of Zhang Jin holding the camera lens and making movements vigorously.

Su Yanxin said with a smile: Director Yi, this kind of shooting scene really can't be leaked to the outside world. If the audience knows that the shocking shots they saw were shot like this, they will die of laughter.

Yi Yang is very calm, there is nothing wrong with such a shooting scene, anyway, this is how the movie was shot, and these are some usual shooting techniques.

Moreover, the secrecy work of Under Deep Space has been done very well. Until now, except for the crew, actors and company who know that the film is starting to be filmed, no outsiders know about it.

Everyone involved in the production of this film has signed a non-disclosure agreement. Even the extras must be kept secret. The content of the filming work is not even posted on Moments. In essence, Yi Yang wants to ensure 100% confidentiality. All communication equipment of the film production staff is closely monitored by the 'Book of Changes'.

Yi Yang is not good at spying on other people's privacy, but with the monitoring of Book of Changes, it is impossible for everyone to post the relevant content of Under the Deep Space even if they want to.

What Yi Yang needs now is to keep it secret, not to be high-profile, but to catch people off guard.

When Under Deep Space was announced to the public, the release date was confirmed.

Before that, the public and the media don't even want to know any news, but Yi Yang doesn't need the promotion like other movies that start right after the preparation.

This is Yi Yang's eighth movie. The box office and word-of-mouth of the first seven films have laid a solid foundation for Yi Yang. The audience will go to the cinema to experience high-quality movies with Yi Yang's name.

Propaganda really doesn't matter.